Mollie Elizabeth shares new single "Puppet Show" with Twilight Zone-inspired visualiser
Mollie Elizabeth has shared a new single alongside a visualiser that borrows heavily from the body-horror unease of The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder". The track arrives as the follow-up to her debut EP Dirty Blonde from June 2025.
Produced by Joshua Murty and featuring string composition by Kyle Gordon, "Puppet Show" tackles the pursuit of flawlessness. In the video, Elizabeth drinks a potion and submits to a procedure in the hope of becoming, as the song’s lyric puts it, “perfect to the bone,” only to end up swaddled in bandages. The visual language is knowingly retro, pulling its monochrome and oppressive close-ups from the 1960 Twilight Zone teleplay.
The 22-year-old artist grew up on an isolated mountain in Washington state’s Cascade Range, where her musical education was split between her mum’s love of Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day, and Connie Francis, and her dad’s vinyl stack of The Zombies and The Kinks. She started recording with a $12 microphone, eventually uploading an early demo of what would become her breakout track, "Vegas Venetian".
Elizabeth has described her own songwriting in terms that sit a little outside the standard-pop-confessionals box. “To me, every melody is a tiny world that invites you in,” she explains. “An invitation to be both fierce and delicate, and to celebrate who you are, who you have been, and who you are becoming. My music isn’t just for listening – it’s for wandering, for imagining, and for finding a piece of yourself in a place you’d forgotten.” That statement tracks with the cinematic scale of "Puppet Show", where string arrangements swell around a vocal that's always on the cusp of splintering.
The single lands without the fanfare of a formal announcement date, sneaking out as a standalone track. It’s a continuation of the palette she established on Dirty Blonde, a five-track EP that paired classic pop with a streak of more messy, alt-leaning sensibilities.
The Neon Gold label has a track record for nurturing acts that operate slightly askew from the mainstream – Christine and the Queens, Matt Maeson, and MARINA all spent time on the roster – and Elizabeth’s visual and sonic references suggest she’s at home in that lineage.
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